Ntando Kebe
| Full name | Ntando Lucky Kebe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 19 August 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | East London, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 80 kg (180 lb; 12 st 8 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Thubalethu High School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | University of Fort Hare | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ntando Lucky Kebe (born 19 August 1988) is a South African rugby union player, who most recently played domestic Currie Cup rugby with the Border Bulldogs and Super Rugby with the Southern Kings.[1] His regular position is scrum-half.
Career
[edit]Youth
[edit]He represented his local team the Border Bulldogs in the 2007 Under-19 Provincial Championship competition and at Under-21 level in 2007, 2008 and 2009.
Border Bulldogs
[edit]In 2010, he was included in the senior squad for the 2010 Vodacom Cup tournament and started the first game of the season, a 69–8 defeat to the Sharks.[2] He quickly established himself as a regular for the senior side and played in both the Vodacom Cup and Currie Cup competitions between 2010 and 2012, accumulating 42 appearances in total.
Boland Cavaliers
[edit]After three seasons of senior rugby at the Border Bulldogs, he then moved to Wellington to join the Boland Cavaliers and played in all seven of their games in the 2013 Vodacom Cup competition.
Griquas
[edit]He joined Griquas for the 2014 season.[3]
Border Bulldogs
[edit]At the start of 2016, Kebe was one of six Border Bulldogs players that joined the Southern Kings' Super Rugby squad for a trial period as they prepared for the 2016 Super Rugby season.[4]
Representative rugby
[edit]In 2012, he was included in a South African Barbarians (South) team that faced England during the 2012 mid-year rugby test series.[5] The following year, he was included in a South Africa President's XV team that played in the 2013 IRB Tbilisi Cup[6] and won the tournament after winning all three matches.[7]
In 2016, Kebe was included in a South Africa 'A' squad that played a two-match series against a touring England Saxons team.[8] He didn't play in their first match in Bloemfontein,[9] but was named on the bench for the second match of the series, coming on as a second-half replacement in a 26–29 defeat to the Saxons in George.[10]
Drugs ban
[edit]On 1 March 2016, Kebe provided an out-of-competition urine sample, which tested positively for prohibited substance stanozolol, and was officially charged with an anti-doping violation on 2 August 2017. He pleaded guilty, claiming that former team-mate Monde Hadebe gave him a supplement that contained the substance, and received a two-year ban with effect from 7 July 2016.[11] Kebe launched an appeal against the decision, in which the appeals panel ruled that his ban should be changed from two years to four years, with Kebe allowed to return to rugby on 8 July 2020.[12]
References
[edit]- ^ "SA Rugby Player Profile – Ntando Kebe". South African Rugby Union. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
- ^ "SA Rugby Match Centre – Sharks XV 69–8 Border". South African Rugby Union. 26 February 2010. Retrieved 11 November 2016.
- ^ "Drie Bulle, nóg agt op pad na Griekwas". Media24 (in Afrikaans). 26 August 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
- ^ "New recruits as Southern Kings 2016 season starts" (Press release). Eastern Province Kings. 4 January 2016. Archived from the original on 28 January 2016. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
- ^ "SA Barbarians teams named". Sport24. 28 May 2012. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
- ^ "SA President's XV selected for IRB Tblisi Cup". South African Rugby Union. 17 May 2013. Archived from the original on 7 June 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
- ^ "SA President's XV win Tbilisi Cup". International Rugby Board. 16 June 2013. Archived from the original on 19 June 2013. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
- ^ "Ackermann to coach SA 'A' against Saxons". South African Rugby Union. 28 May 2016. Archived from the original on 31 May 2016. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
- ^ "Youth and experience for SA 'A' opener against Saxons". South African Rugby Union. 8 June 2016. Archived from the original on 10 June 2016. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
- ^ "SA Rugby Match Centre – South Africa "A" 26–29 England Saxons". South African Rugby Union. 17 June 2016. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
- ^ "SAIDS v Ntando Kebe" (PDF). South African Institute for Drug-Free Sport. 13 October 2017. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
- ^ "Appeal Decision Ntando Kebe Final" (PDF). South African Institute for Drug-Free Sport. 24 March 2018. Retrieved 16 August 2018.